- announcement; bulletin; communique
- state of mind; mood
- to discharge one's duties; conscientious
- the real body (of Buddha or a God); true effigy
- blankly; vacantly; at a loss
- not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end; embarrassed and at a complete loss
- unswerving; unflinching
- weak; feeble
- (idiom) all-conquering; invincible
- to concede; to admit defeat
- see 臨陣退縮|临阵退缩[lin2 zhen4 tui4 suo1]
- 榜 bǎng: 榜 bang3: notice or announcement; list of names; public roll of successful examinees榜 bàng: 榜 bang4: (literary) oar; (metonym) boat; (literary) to whip; to flog; Taiwan pr. [beng4]
- famous; well-known
- to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate; to go downhill
- (do sth) on a large scale
- extreme north
- broad outline; gist; summary
- river that flows only within a country's borders; inland waterway (esp. for transportation, in contrast to coastal or maritime waters)
- (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
- to survey comprehensively; an overall survey
- then and now; ancient and modern
- infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
- to continue; to replenish
- completely incompatible; lit. incompatible as fire and water
- to tremble; shudder
- to flush away
- a world of ice and snow
- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
- 蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- at peace; healthy and secure
- to fight hand-to-hand
- to choke; to stifle; to suffocate
- to use; to put to use
- one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short; in a nutshell
- allied forces
- the most important; of chief importance
- a dispute; to wrangle
- to leak (gas); to be discouraged; to despair; (disparaging) pathetic; to vent one's anger; (of a tire) to be flat
- 弓 Gōng: 弓 Gong1: surname Gong弓 gōng: 弓 gong1: a bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]; to bend; to arch (one's back etc)